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Your comparison of Winston Churchill to Garner was certainly lacking in imagination [TIME, Aug. 14]. They are about as much alike politically or otherwise as a Lion and a Mule. By standards of culture, background and accomplishment, Churchill is a "Silk Purse" and Garner a "Sow...
Joyce left Ireland ("the old sow that eats her farrow") 35 years ago and went to Trieste, then in Austria-Hungary, to live by "silence, exile and cunning." In Trieste his children were born. In 1915 Joyce was so busy with Ulysses that he scarcely noticed that Italy and Austria were about to fight until frontiers began to close. A Greek friend (Joyce is superstitious about Greeks, believes that they bring him luck, that nuns do not) got him permission to leave through Italy. Along the frontier, each time he passed a station, it was dynamited behind...
...willingness to work is retained on the squads and encouraged. Two members of this year's Varsity squash team never played before coming to Harvard. Men with some ability who were unwilling to work were cut, on the theory that it is wasteful for the coaches to sow their seed on barren soil. We work with those who are willing to work with...
Last year a total of 9,598 Harvard men supported the fund, while present indications sow that the 10,000 mark may be reached...
Censors permitted to pass the estimate of Izvestia, official Government organ, that the now collectivized peasants have resisted this year to the extent of sowing only 35,463,792 acres up to last week whereas the State had ordered them to sow by then 48,705,881 acres. Thus far, according to Izvestia, 17% of the total sowing scheduled for this spring has been done. Thus, despite all censorship, the main fact came out that Dictator Stalin, having suddenly realized how much trouble is up, has leaped in with concessions which he hopes will persuade the peasantry to start sowing...